Registered Tangible Cultural Properties of Japan

A c.1935 two-storey clapboard house behind a merchant home in Chizu, Tottori, with Stick Style window pilasters; once a church, since 2001 a free film museum.

The Former Hino Bridge in Yonago, Tottori, a 366-metre six-span steel truss of 1929 over the Hino River, has arched portal frames and is open to pedestrians.

The former Yoshida clinic in Tottori, a storehouse-style building of 1952 designed by its owner, mixes Eastern and Western details in a folk-craft spirit.

The former Kakubancho post office in central Yonago, Tottori, a timber building of 1935, keeps a Western-style front of weatherboards and tall windows on its street.

Built in 1892 on a Yonago street corner, the Sakaguchi Main House stacks three roof forms and has a tatami corridor, not an earthen passage. Registered in 2009.

This 1896 kura of the Sakaguchi Family Residence faces Yonago Castle's old moat, with a namako-kabe tile-lattice front and tall boards and hooded windows behind.

Built in 1892 by the kitchen of the Sakaguchi Family Residence in Yonago, this narrow storehouse pairs an earth-floored shed with a room over a charcoal cellar.

This 1926 annex of the Sakaguchi Family Residence in Yonago has two hip-and-gable roofs meeting in a T and a 14-meter corridor whose wall doubles as the street wall.

The late Taisho gate and wall of the Sakaguchi Family Residence in Yonago: a 1.6-meter bracketed gate and 6.9 meters of white plaster wall on a cut-stone footing.

The Sasaki Family Residence Grain Storehouse in Hino, Tottori, is an 1829 clay-walled store with a detached roof and two doorways, one capped by a stone lintel.

The Sasaki Family Residence Main House in Hino, Tottori, is a late Edo farmhouse with a broad earth floor and a staggered four-room plan, registered in 2017.

The Sasaki Family Residence New Storehouse in Hino, Tottori, is a 1900 clay-walled store with mokko-shaped shutters and a namako tile wall above its front canopy.

The Sasaki Family Residence New Reception Wing in Hino, Tottori, is a 1911 guest wing with a formal entrance and a carved transom by the carpenter Tomitsugu Seisai.

An 1874 storehouse beside the main house in Akasaki, Tottori, registered in 2015, which photographer Shiotani Teiko turned into a shop and studio after the war.

A 1906 merchant house on the coast road in Akasaki, Tottori, registered in 2015, with fine lattices across both floors and rooms fitted with choice woods and inlay.

A 1902 two-storey storehouse facing the main house across the garden in Akasaki, Tottori, registered in 2015, the newest storehouse on the Shiotani family compound.

Completed in 1937, this is the tallest of five stone-faced erosion-control dams on the upper Shimizu River. A square weep hole pierces the base of its spillway.

Completed in 1939, this low stone dam anchors the top of the Shimizu River group above Kurayoshi. Its weathered masonry sinks into a forest replanted after erosion.

Completed in 1938 and 80 metres long, this is the longest Shimizu River dam. A carved stone plaque on its left abutment bears the crest of the Home Ministry.

The lowest of the Shimizu River dams, completed in 1938. An irrigation channel through its left abutment lets one wall both hold back flood sediment and feed the fields.

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